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HIV/AIDS
Research findings from S.R. Friedman et al update understanding of HIV/AIDS
April 21st, 2009
"Political-economic transitions in the Soviet Union, Indonesia, and China, but not the Philippines, were followed by HIV epidemics among drug users," scientists in the United States report. "Wars also may sometimes increase HIV risk. Based on similarities in some of the causal pathways through which wars and transitions can affect HIV risk, we use the term ''Big Events'' to include both," wrote S.R. Friedman and colleagues. The researchers concluded: "We first critique several prior epidemiological models of Big Events as inadequately incorporating social agency and as somewhat imprecise and over-generalizing in their sociology." ...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2009-04-21)
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